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I've of course something that in our poor dear backward old Rome sufficiently passes for it. But it's no more like yours than the tortuous stone staircase half-ruined into the bargain! in some castle of our quattrocento is like the `lightning elevator' in one of Mr. Verver's fifteen-storey buildings. Your moral sense works by steam it sends you up like a rocket.
"She doesn't count of course his having asked of her to marry him" this was Mr. Verver's indulgent criticism; but he found Charlotte, equally touched by the ingenuous Maggie, in easy agreement with him over the question.
It might feed of course on finding her so absent from her home just as this particular phenomenon of her domestic detachment could be, by the anxious mind, best studied there. There was always, to cover all ambiguities, to constitute a fund of explanation for the divisions of Mrs. Verver's day, the circumstance that, at the point they had all reached together, Mrs.
Verver's tap against the glass, as I have called it, into fifty forms; could perhaps have translated it most into the form of a reminder that would pierce deep. "You don't know what it is to have been loved and broken with. You haven't been broken with, because in your RELATION what can there have been, worth speaking of, to break?
The book was an old novel that the Princess had a couple of days before mentioned having brought down from Portland Place in the charming original form of its three volumes. Charlotte had hailed, with a specious glitter of interest, the opportunity to read it, and our young woman had, thereupon, on the morrow, directed her maid to carry it to Mrs. Verver's apartments.
And the beauty," she explained, "is that they're afraid for them. Afraid, I mean, for the others." "For Mr. Verver and Maggie?" It did take some following. "Afraid of what?" "Afraid of themselves." The Colonel wondered. "Of THEMSELVES? Of Mr. Verver's and Maggie's selves?" Mrs. Assingham remained patient as well as lucid. "Yes of SUCH blindness too. But most of all of their own danger."
They were staying on together alone, and oh distinctly! it was alone that Maggie had driven away, her father, as usual, not having managed to come. "'As usual' ?" Mrs. Assingham had seemed to wonder; Mr. Verver's reluctances not having, she in fact quite intimated, hitherto struck her.
"Conspiring so far as YOU were concerned to what end?" "Why, to the obvious end of getting the Prince a wife at Maggie's expense. And then to that of getting Charlotte a husband at Mr. Verver's." "Of rendering friendly services, yes which have produced, as it turns out, complications. But from the moment you didn't do it FOR the complications, why shouldn't you have rendered them?"
Verver's vaguely, yet quite exquisitely, contingent participation a mere hinted or tendered discretion; in short of Mrs. Verver's indescribable, unfathomable relation to the scene.
He was living, he had been living these four or five years, on Mr. Verver's services: a truth scarcely less plain if he dealt with them, for appreciation, one by one, than if he poured them all together into the general pot of his gratitude and let the thing simmer to a nourishing broth.
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